Eviction can lead to homelessness, job loss, and a cascade of other negative outcomes that cause severe harm to families and their communities. With housing costs rising across the city and the exceedingly short supply of affordable housing, more and more people—families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and veterans—are having trouble finding and keeping housing.

Foreclosure can be devastating for homeowners with low-income who often worked for years to secure a home of their own. To make matters worse, those facing foreclosure, particularly in low-income communities of color, are targeted for scams that promise relief and provide no results. NYLAG attorneys work with homeowners to keep them in their homes through litigation, fraud prevention, and community outreach.

Safe and secure housing is a basic human need and should be a universal right; without it, everything, from employment to education, becomes so much harder.